There's a few types of rings here. Audiotech is dead on. EQing out an offensive ring is bad planning and should have been killed in the room. Unless certain sounds are going to be explicitly achieved...

Tune a 28" higher than you think you should. If you tune it like you would a 22, the fundamentals are going to be very low and the drum will actually sound thin and flappy. (Pay close attention when...

Put simply: I own over a dozen snares, and the Black Beauty would be one of the last to go. (The true last ones would also be Black Beauties - they're just from the 1920s - would let go of the modern...